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Google’s Schaft Robot Wins Robotics Challenge Competition

The SCHAFT robot performed at this year’s DARPA Robotics Challenge, and was one of the highlights from the competition.

The Google owned robot impressively performed tasks that would be crucial for a machine to complete in an emergency, life saving scenario, such as opening doors, breaking walls, and climbing stairs to save a person. Read more »

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Google-owned SCHAFT robot wins DARPA Robotics Challenge …

Tat’s Revolution.com; ... Japanese robotics company SCHAFT has won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials by a wide ... case for all of the robots in the competition.

The Google-owned ... Check out the SCHAFT robot performing the eight DRC Trials tasks in the sped-up video below. The tasks were actually performed at a much lower speed, as was the case for all of the robots in the competition. The suspension cables ...

At the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials 2013, 16 teams competed in eight tasks for a chance to advance to the finals, where they would have a chance to win ... robot that was based on its HRP-2 robot and earned 27 points over the weekend. The …

(Newser) – One of Google's recent ... says a competition organizer. "What they needed was a robot to go into that reactor building and shut off the valves," Gill Pratt adds. The BBC lists competitors' tasks. Robots had to: Schaft's winning robot is ...

A robot developed by a Japanese start-up recently acquired by Google is the winner of a two-day competition hosted by the Pentagon's research unit Darpa. Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide …

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Google’s Schaft humanoid robot wins DARPA Robotics Challenge

Schaft was part of Track A ... funding for software and were supplied with a Boston Dynamics (also recently acquired by Google) Atlas robot for the competition. Track C teams were "free agents" who later received software funding and an Atlas robot ...

We already knew Google ... themed tasks. Schaft, along with the other top scorers, can now apply for more Darpa funds to compete in the finals of the competition, held next year. The competition wasn't a frivolous robo-fest like the robot world cup.

Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC?

The DRC Trials drew huge public interest, and the teams and their robots performed ... that better align with Google's robotics goals? And if SCHAFT returns, will it have another easy win or will it face tougher competition? UPDATE 6 Feb 2014 2:19 p.m ...

Schaft Inc.’s robot dominated ... recently acquired by Google, led the field, securing 27 of 32 possible points. The top eight winners are now eligible to secure up to $1 million in funding in 2014 in the run up to a final competition next year where ...

Of the three to win, IHMC was the only one to use an ATLAS robot ... likely that SCHAFT will be well integrated into Google’s robotics project, so it will be interesting to see how things change for this company as it moves to the final competition.